Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 7
The so-called thatched huts in this era are actually mostly loess thatched huts.

If it is a real thatched cottage, the house structure is only made of thatch and bamboo, and it is impossible to live in the cold winter months, and it is absolutely ventilated.

The walls of loess huts are made of loess. Of course, bamboo, wood and thatch may be used as the base frame inside the walls. In this way, when building the house, wet loess and rice milk water are filled in the bamboo and wood structure, so that the loess can be used. Standing upright as a wall, it will not collapse easily.

When the loess and rice milk dries up, the loess wall is also successful, and it can be regarded as somewhat solid.

This kind of loess wall is airtight, so it can keep warm in winter. If you burn a charcoal stove in the house, you can stay warm even in this icy and snowy season.

The roof is based on a bamboo mat and covered with thatch outside.

Although using thatch as a roof is not as waterproof as tiles, but in general, rainwater will flow along the stalks to the eaves and will not penetrate into the house.

Of course, to build such a loess thatched hut would cost some manpower and money, so the Panglizheng family can have three loess thatched huts, which is obviously different from the family background of ordinary people.

Pang Lizheng opened the gate of the bamboo fence outside, led Zhu Wei into the reception hall among the three loess thatched huts, and invited Zhu Wei to sit on the couch.

In the halls of this era, you basically need to take off your shoes to enter. The floors of both the inner room and the outer hall are similar to the tatami structure. Generally, the host and guest will sit and talk on the couch.

At this time, there was a pot of charcoal fire burning in the hall, and a pot of hot water was boiled on top of the charcoal fire.

The heat released by the charcoal fire filled the entire hall, and there was a cloth curtain at the gate of the hall to block the wind, so the temperature in the entire hall seemed very warm.

It seems that Pang Lizheng's family has no female relatives, and no other family members. Everything is entertained by the old man here.

After Zhu Wei sat down in the main room, Li Zheng took his leave first, and when he got outside the house, he seemed to be discussing something with other villagers in the village, roughly asking every family to collect some food to entertain Zhu Wei.

Zhu Wei heard the noise from outside, so he ordered them to follow into the main room, and Zhu Hou, who was standing guard in front of the couch, let out a sound.

Zhu Hou untied a piece of wolf skin from his back, which was wrapped with a lot of smoked half-cooked wolf meat, and walked outside the house a few steps, and said, "My son ordered a certain family to mix this wolf skin with Two pieces of rabbit skins and some wolf meat will also be handed over to you for additional cooking expenses. My son is only staying here for one night and will leave tomorrow, and the wolf fur and meat will not be taken away!"

Hearing Zhu Hou's words, the villagers outside seemed to be very happy, but Pang Lizheng was a little ashamed, and repeatedly shied away, saying that he didn't dare to do it.

However, the matter was settled like this, there really wasn't much good food in this village, since Zhu Wei had wolf meat himself, it was considered as meat for him.

Of course, Zhu Wei didn't care too much about these trifles, but he took a look at the furnishings in this room. From the hall, he could also see the side rooms. In one room, there seemed to be several scrolls of bamboo slips.

"Could it be that this is really some kind of hidden master? Not so!"

Zhu Wei secretly thought in his heart, originally he thought that Pang Lizheng's surname Pang might have something to do with his self-created military general Pang Yan, but now it seems that this Pang Lizheng looks like a scholar's home.

"Oh, I'm too worried, just stay here temporarily for one night, how can there be so much to think about!"

Zhu Wei couldn't help but secretly smiled, the main reason was that he missed his self-created generals so much, as long as there were some with a side, he would think of them.

And Pang Lizheng seemed to have arranged for the women and children in the village to help cook together, then turned around and went back to the house, and saluted again when he saw Zhu Wei, "My lord, the village is poor, but you want me to give you meat, I'm really ashamed!"

"It's my fault to bother you for no reason! Guan Lizheng's family, Lizheng seems to be an unusual household, I don't know how to ask!"

Zhu Wei stood up and saluted, and then asked politely, although he felt that it was impossible to meet any famous person, but maybe the aura of the protagonist exploded.

The old man Lizheng smiled slightly, and after asking Zhu Wei to sit down, he said, "I'm ashamed to say that the old man is originally from the Pang family in Jingzhou, but he just settled here because of things, so he has a bit of old habits."

"Oh, it's the Pang family of Jingzhou!"

Zhu Wei really didn't expect that Lizheng in this poor village actually had some origins. The Pang family in Jingzhou should be Pang Tong's family.

"The young master also knows Pang's family, but I don't know the young master's name?"

The old man here doesn't seem to care too much about his identity as a member of the Pang family. Perhaps he is far from the main line of the Pang family, and he is already a collateral branch of the Pang family.

However, since Zhu Wei knew about Pang's family, the old man here already wanted to know who Zhu Wei was.

Of course, Zhu Wei's clothes and appearance are indeed like a nobleman, otherwise the old man here would not treat each other with such courtesy. To be honest, Zhu Wei's image at the moment is still a bit embarrassing. Another person may suspect that Zhu Wei is Pretending to be a noble son.

It's just that Zhu Wei hesitated for a moment when he heard the words, and then he said, "Pang Lizheng forgives me. I have some important connections in my history. I may not be able to say it clearly for now. When I come back here in the future, I will definitely say it to Pang Lizheng!"

"Oh, I don't know why, my lord, the old man needs to know the identities of the foreigners who come and go, this..."

The old man Lizheng really didn't expect Zhu Wei to conceal his identity, but as Lizheng, according to his normal duties, he can be regarded as a low-level local official who takes care of one side.

"Pang Lizheng, this matter is important and should not be discussed lightly. Besides, Pang Lizheng now knows my identity, so it is inappropriate..."

Zhu Wei also hesitated for a moment, he is hiding his identity now because he is worried that Ruo Rong will be traced here, maybe Ruo Rong will really return to Danyang Moling City.

In this way, if Ruo Rong led troops to investigate, wouldn't Zhu Wei's whereabouts be exposed.

But at this point, Zhu Wei thought about it for a while, and then said, "Well, I am Zhu Wei and Zhu Lingfa, and my second brother is Zhu Hao, the prefect of Yuzhang. Now the second brother was killed by the traitor Ruo Rong. My next journey is to go to Danyang to find Lord Liu Muzhou of Yangzhou to ask for help and borrow troops to kill the traitors Ruo Rong."

"Oh, there is such a thing! This old man has also seen Ruo Rong's chariots and horses marching through the village before. I only know that this person came from the north, and I don't want to do such a thing!"

The village where Pang Lizheng lives is next to the official road connecting Danyang, Panyang, and Yuzhang. Earlier, Ruo Rong came to Yuzhang to assist Zhu Hao in the name of Liu Yao, and the army he led naturally passed through this village.

In fact, this Pang Lizheng didn't care much about Ruo Rong's killing of Zhu Hao, and now he was just feeling emotional because of Zhu Wei's identity.

But he was also relieved why Zhu Wei had concealed his identity before, and to be honest, he regretted knowing this now.

On the contrary, Zhu Wei doesn't care. If Ruo Rong really wants to investigate something, since Zhu Wei has stayed in this village and attracted the attention of so many people in the village, he will definitely be rumored by the people in the village. Then Zhu Wei's identity still couldn't be hidden.

That being the case, now that I hide my identity, I'm just scaring myself...

(End of this chapter)